From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-3850-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 15548 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Jun 2003 23:26:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19948 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2003 23:26:30 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Reply-To: vapier@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:26:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306191926.28901.vapier@gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-dev] More info than DESCRIPTION X-Archives-Salt: 050748aa-ee76-4a44-8856-0053823e1549 X-Archives-Hash: 1e2d33af5151ce91928a5f749adaddde sometimes its nice to see what a package does ... and i mean more than a 1-liner ... for example the way rpm stores a large description in itself ... i like having the 1-liner short description, dont get me wrong ... i dont want to see that change ... but what if we were to add support for a large description/explanation for ppl who are not familiar with it ... could be handled in a couple of ways: 1. a package you would emerge that would have a large database of descriptions ... not very good idea due to updating 1 package means a whole new d/l ... 2. a package that would query a remote gentoo server via http or something 3. another file for all packages to be added to cvs ... say 'Info' or 'About' or something similar ... i would rather not see it go into the ebuild ;) <[Eazy|E]> is there a way to get an info about the package, the info like the freshmeat.net gives out ? <[Eazy|E]> I liked the way rpm's had info stored about the package, so one who does not know the package can get an overview of the package with the text w/o checking the homepage etc <[Eazy|E]> since qpkg can query the packages, it could be used also for giving more info about the package, like -i, maybe just another flag that will spit out more text etc. thoughts/etc... ? -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list